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 The
average rapper wouldn't be able
to grace the pages of Rap
Pages, VIBE, Rolling Stone, Spin, The
Source, URB and Stress and go on a national tour months
before their major-label debut
album is released. Then again, Eminem isn't
an average rapper. He's phenomenal.
The impending release of the The Slim Shady LP,
his first set on Aftermath/ Interscope
Records, already has
underground hip-hop heads fiending
for Eminem.
Read more about Eminem |
 In
the post-Motown landscape of Detroit, brothers
rocking the mic are still being
considered the voice of young America. Yet,
instead of dreaming of blue
skies and white picket fences,
the unruly boys known as D12 create surreal universes of
wild times and unruly rhymes.
On their bombastic sophomore
effort, D-12 World,
this motley crew of versatile
style slayers mixes the rowdiness
and absurdities of their lives
into one potent cocktail.
Read more about D12 |
 On Curtis, his third major label album, rapper 50 Cent gives no quarter. As hard and brutally honest, yet musical and entertaining, as his first two albums - each of them #1 Pop, #1 R&B/Hip-hop and at least seven times platinum - 50 Cent (aka Curtis Jackson) tells it like it is on Curtis and makes the resulting controversy pay as he heads " Straight to the Bank," the title of the album’s first street track.
Read more about 50 Cent |
 Forget
about everything you think you
know about Southern
rap and open your ears
to the new sound of the A-Town. “ Everything I do is
different from what’s
going on right now,” says Stat Quo matter-of-factly. And Shady/ Aftermath’s newest recruit isn’t just
blowing hot air. Although his
name may suggest the average, Shady/ Aftermath Records’ first southern artist is anything
but. “ A lot of these
artists are just clones of what’s
come before,” says Stat from under
the brim of his signature Braves
fitted cap.
Read more about Stat Quo |
 "First
it was Crunk, then it was Trap,
then it was Snap. Now perhaps
we could rap cause thats the
shit that put us on the map" .. Bobby Creekwater
Atlanta: Gateway
to the south. Turn the key and
you'll find an array of sounds
re-shaping the urban music landscape
like never before imagined.
Amidst the 'crunk', the 'snappin'
and the 'trappin' is one of
Atlanta's best kept secrets: Bobby Creekwater.
Read more about Bobby Creekwater |
 Born and raised on the Southside of Chicago, Cashis found his true calling in life as a rapper after he was forcefully relocated to Orange County. It was a life altering situation by leaving the Windy City for Southern California at the age of 16. Immediately, having a baby girl Miana on the way, with his teenage bride Monique, and frequent police trouble and gang profiling. Ca$his found himself back where he came from, Chicago, at his beloved older brother's (Rob) funeral. And again months later at his Grandma Cora's funeral.
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